MULTIMATHEMACY: Anthropology and Mathematics Education [electronic resource] / by Rik Pinxten

Author: Pinxten, Rik
Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
Physical Description: XXI, 190 pages : online resource
Additional Creators: SpringerLink (Online service)

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Foreword -- Introduction. What ifs -- Worldview: sphere and worldview.-Part I: The general context of education -- 1. Education in a post-industrial world -- 2. Math education and culture: learning theories -- Part II: Epistemological questions on AM and EM -- 3. Foundational issues? Whitehead s Multiperspectivalness -- 4. Language and thought -- Part III: Ethnomathematics and education -- 5. Multimathemacy and education: general principles -- 6. Learning formal thinking in a culture-specific context -- 7. Combined mathematical operations: Locating and representing, measuring, designing, traditional building, archaeological digging, dancing, computer designing, storytelling, buying and selling -- 8. Education in a school context -- 9. General conclusions -- 10. Appendix: Human Beings as Learners-in-Context: A Motor for the Capability Approach -- Bibliography.

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This book aims at agents in education and social actions in every cultural environment. But it is also attractive to mathematicians, anthropologists and other specialists. It offers a broad and scholarly view of knowledge and culture and a very original transcultural and transdisciplinarian approach to education. Ubiratan D'Ambrosio, UNICAMP/Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil.

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